It's just like the 360 game. That's great. I've played the first ten levels on normal, and am now trying them on harder difficulties just to try and find better weapons. I'm dying a lot.
Pikmin 2: a veritable army by day 18
After finding the yellow pikmin, I spent a couple of in-game days building up the numbers to around 150, before exploring the Awakening Wood and finding electrified gates that I could now break down. Some of these led me to the blue pikmin, meaning that I now have some of each type. I've also ventured back into the White Flower Garden, so I have 15 white pikmin and 18 purple pikmin in the rockets - but the white pikmin came at a cost, since I lost around 30 reds in the fight at the end of the cave.
The blue pikmin are extremely useful in gaining access to new areas. Annoyingly, I've rolled out a few bridges over water which other pikmin don't seem to be too keen on keeping to - I've lost a fair few yellows and reds (and a couple of purples) when they've decided that walking on the bridge was far too sensible and they wanted to skirt around the outside into the river instead. Survival of the fittest.
The blue pikmin are extremely useful in gaining access to new areas. Annoyingly, I've rolled out a few bridges over water which other pikmin don't seem to be too keen on keeping to - I've lost a fair few yellows and reds (and a couple of purples) when they've decided that walking on the bridge was far too sensible and they wanted to skirt around the outside into the river instead. Survival of the fittest.
Pikmin 2: slow progress until day 7
Without the overall time deadline of the first game, there's less incentive to rush around the levels, having multiple groups of pikmin on multiple tasks simultaneously. Instead, I spent a couple of days just exploring Awakening Wood, building up my red pikmin numbers before entering the second cave.
Down in this cave I found white pikmin, adding to the purple pikmin I had from before. The white pikmin are resistant to poison, which should come in handy, but only because the game has introduced poisonous enemies and obstacles. It's a bit more complicated than the first game, and there are new 'sprays' which I know I'll never get around to using since they're a disposable item.
I find it pretty limiting that the white and purple pikmin can only be gained by going into the caves - and the caves are all a bit dark and miserable. As a result I've got very few white pikmin left, particularly after half of them died in the final battle in the white flower cave.
Still, with poison-resistant pikmin in my party, I was able to break through to new areas, and I've found the yellow pikmin as well. With the lack of time limit, I feel that my next task will be to build up numbers again ...
Down in this cave I found white pikmin, adding to the purple pikmin I had from before. The white pikmin are resistant to poison, which should come in handy, but only because the game has introduced poisonous enemies and obstacles. It's a bit more complicated than the first game, and there are new 'sprays' which I know I'll never get around to using since they're a disposable item.
I find it pretty limiting that the white and purple pikmin can only be gained by going into the caves - and the caves are all a bit dark and miserable. As a result I've got very few white pikmin left, particularly after half of them died in the final battle in the white flower cave.
Still, with poison-resistant pikmin in my party, I was able to break through to new areas, and I've found the yellow pikmin as well. With the lack of time limit, I feel that my next task will be to build up numbers again ...
Euro Truck Simulator 2: get out of the way
My word, this is amusing. I'm hopeless at it though - reversing into the spaces is just hilariously bad. Cars seem to have a habit of driving into my side as well, meaning that each trip is earning me not much money.
On my first trip I made the mistake of discovering Birmingham.
Unfortunately I didn't blow it up.
My second delivery was to Swansea. There were some horrifically narrow roads on the way there.
And some stupidly slow drivers.
I was glad to work out the key to flash my lights at everyone.
On my first trip I made the mistake of discovering Birmingham.
Unfortunately I didn't blow it up.
My second delivery was to Swansea. There were some horrifically narrow roads on the way there.
And some stupidly slow drivers.
I was glad to work out the key to flash my lights at everyone.
Team Fortress 2: a great community
I felt like playing an online shooter, but I'm not sure where my copies of various Halos are and I've not bought a Call of Duty game since number 2 (and that was in Portuguese). I've completed Portal a number of times and have made my way half-way through Half-Life 2 (as described the last time I wrote about it - the last bit I remember was playing with Alyx's dog and then being separated from her by a tunnel collapsing, but that was a good few months ago), but have never played Team Fortress 2. I decided to change that.
I'm really glad I did. The game's not particularly friendly to newcomers, with the different classes seeming bewildering, but I decided to just jump in and try to work it out as I went. Of course, this meant that I died a lot, but that just meant I could experiment more with different playing styles.
I quickly realised that the best class for me was the pyromaniac, which was surprising since in most games I don't like getting up close to enemies. The pyro has an advantage in that the weapon - a flamethrower - doesn't need to be completely accurate, though it relies on an extended contact with enemies.
I also played a few games with the spy, which was great fun - trying to act like a member of the other team in order to prevent getting discovered, while sneaking in to the base to steal the documents.
The thing I found most difficult was learning the maps. I only played on two different areas, one with two forts with identical mazes within (on which I played capture the flag), and one where the idea was to make progress through the level. I was on the losing team on every game but one, and I can't help but feel my participation may not have helped on that.
The thing that struck me most about the game was the community. Everyone was playing as a team, not boasting about kills, and a couple of people actively helped me - I managed to get the documents back to our base while two others protected me. I said thanks, they told me I was welcome.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- …
- 80
- Next Page »